Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
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Articles | Volume 16, issue 11
Articles | Volume 16, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-3015-2023
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-3015-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 16, issue 11
Research article
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15 Jun 2023
Research article |  | 15 Jun 2023

An explicit formulation for the retrieval of the overlap function in an elastic and Raman aerosol lidar

Adolfo Comerón, Constantino Muñoz-Porcar, Alejandro Rodríguez-Gómez, Michaël Sicard, Federico Dios, Cristina Gil-Díaz, Daniel Camilo Fortunato dos Santos Oliveira, and Francesc Rocadenbosch

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We derive an explicit (i.e., non-iterative) formula for the retrieval of the overlap function in an aerosol lidar with both elastic and Raman N2 and/or O2 channels used for independent measurements of aerosol backscatter and extinction coefficients. The formula requires only the measured, range-corrected elastic and the corresponding Raman signals, plus an assumed lidar ratio. We assess the influence of the lidar ratio error in the overlap function retrieval and present retrieval examples.
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